Trucking Technology Alert - Oct. 31
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Today's Technology Headlines:
- New Online Tank Database Developed
- GSA Begins to Use Mileage Software
- Savi Announces Open Licensing of UDAP
- Cingular Upgrade Set for 2003
- GSA Begins to Use Mileage Software
New Online Tank Database Developed
The American Bureau of Shipping has developed an electronic-based information system to provide tank owners with fast access to inspection reports.The company's Web-based E-CIS program gives tank owners instant access to data important to their operations, according to ABS Programs manager Robert Vienneau, who notes there are more than 100,000 tank containers throughout the world. Specific features of the system include enabling owners to print reports confirming tank containers have passed statutory inspection and access to various survey information, such as data relating to pressure relief valves. Journal of Commerce (10/29/01)
GSA Begins to Use Mileage Software
The U.S. General Services Administration has implemented software from New Jersey-based ALK Technologies as a way to track highway mileage for federal civilian agency freight and household-goods shipments.The customized software allows users to display routes and geographical data on computerized maps, and features an enhanced North American and European database including 112,500 standard point locations codes, as well as improved accuracy. Separately, ALK recently unveiled a fuel tax reporting software package able to fully automate all areas of fuel and mileage tax tracking, calculation, and reporting, along with trailer reports. Traffic World (10/29/01) Vol. 265, No. 44, P. 17; Hickey, Kathleen
Savi Announces Open Licensing of UDAP
Savi Technology, a provider of collaboration and real-time supply chain asset management software, recently announced the open licensing of its universal data appliance protocol (UDAP).The protocol provides a common interface that connects information from leading wireless data collection technologies to the company's Web-based software platform. Among the first UDAP licensees to join the UDAP Interoperability Alliance are eight data collection companies providing the complete range of integration services, wireless application development, real-time locating systems, radio-frequency identification devices and barcodes.
These companies will receive technical support and a royalty-free license to integrate the protocol, which supports instant communication of captured data directly to Savi's SmartChain software platform on the Internet. In addition, Savi's existing relationships from its SmartChain software applications has allowed Savi to integrate the UDAP protocol with hardware systems for Symbol UDAP. This provides a common language software translator that allows interoperable "plug and play" functions between the Savi SmartChain platform and such other kinds of data collection hardware as PDAs, handheld devices, radio-frequency readers, and bar code scanners.
Accordingly, information captured by these various data collection technologies can be instantly aggregated and presented to logistics service providers and shippers through a comprehensive suite of software solutions in one location on the Internet. eyefortransport (10/31/01)
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Cingular Upgrade Set for 2003
Cingular Wireless, the second-largest provider of mobile phone services in the United States, expects to finish its upgrade to the GSM (global system for mobile communications) standard in all major U.S. markets in 2003.Three vendors, LM Ericsson, Siemens, and Nokia will supply the equipment for the company's $3 billion upgrade. Cingular is upgrading its network to the same standards used by its new partner VoiceStream. The two companies recently agreed to share networks in California, Nevada, and New York, in order to enter those markets faster and save hundreds of millions of dollars in equipment costs. According to Brian Modoff of Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown, between one-fifth and one-quarter of Cingular's network already uses GSM.
Sprint, AT&T Wireless, Verizon Wireless, and VoiceStream Wireless have all previously said that they plan to upgrade their networks to the GSM standard. Atlanta Journal-Constitution (10/31/01) P. 9D
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